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These beautiful images of a young woman performing in Muybridge’s ‘motion-capture’ open-air stu- dio in 1886-7, became an essential marker in the quest for a viable motion picture system. Muybridge was thoroughly aware of this potential aspect of his work – “Muybridge made zoopraxiscope discs from what he considered to be his best images, particularly of wild animals and birds on the wing (which he had finally succeeded in photographing at the zoo in August and September 1885); For his Zoopraxographic Hall at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, he published fifty images on paper discs that purchasers could colour and animate at home.” (Marta Braun: Animal Locomotion (p282) from Philip
Brookman (ed): Eadward Muybridge, Tate Publishing 2010). https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/eadweard-muybridge